Explosion Rocks Military Site in Tehran Early Friday……..
10 July 2020
10 July 2020
An explosion, the latest in a wave of explosions targeting several military and nuclear sites, rocked south-west Teuran in the early hours of Friday morning, cutting off electricity to parts of the city.
Official Iranian sources claimed the explosions were at a power plant.
Journalist Hasan Sari ... added that there were “a series of explosions” in Tehran, Garmdareh and Quds..
Sari cited unofficial sources claiming the blast allegedly hit a missile facility/warehouse of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
Israel has long been credited by experts as possessing the most adept and professional cyber warfare capability in the world.
In this scenario, Israel can destroy military targets from within instead of attacking the facilities by missile or by aircraft. [see map of Iran's nuclear facilities above]
Israel can even claim deniability!
Let us examine some other possible Israeli cyber attacks against sensitive Iranian targets.
* Last Thursday, a fire broke out at a ground-level building at Iran’s underground Natanz facility which authorities said had caused significant damage.
Natanz nuclear facility is generally recognised as Iran’s central facility for uranium enrichment with over 19,000 gas centrifuges currently operational and nearly half of them being fed with uranium hexafluoride.
According to media, “while investigators have considered the possibility that Natanz was hit … by a cruise missile or a drone, they view it as more likely that someone carried a bomb into the building”.
An unidentified Revolutionary Guard member said that while it was unclear how the explosives were snuck in, “the attack clearly demonstrated a hole in the facility’s security”.
* On Tuesday, two people were killed in an explosion at a (auto) factory in the south of Tehran.
* An explosion from a gas leak in the Sina Athar Medical Centre in northern Tehran killed 19 people.
* A large explosion at the local power station left half of the city of Tehran without electricity.
Erdogan: Turkey on path to ‘unstoppable power’ in region….
11 July 2020
11 July 2020
People pose in front of a placard depicting
Turkish President Erdogan and Ottoman
Sultan Mehmet II, also known as Mehmet
the Conqueror, outside Istanbul's famous
Hagia Sophia on July 10, 2020, in Istanbul.
Turkish president Tayyip Erdogan throws his lot in again with Russia and Iran [in line with Ezekiel's prophecy] in Syria, expands plans for influence in North Africa and converts the Hagia Sophia church and museum back into a mosque.
Turkey's top administrative court has annulled a 1934 decree that turned the historic Hagia Sophia into a museum, opening the way for the structure to be converted back into a mosque.
Erdogan announced Friday that the Hagia Sophia, one of the architectural wonders of the world, would be reopened for Muslim worship as a mosque, sparking fury in the Christian community and neighbouring Greece.
His declaration came after a top Turkish court revoked the sixth-century Byzantine monument's status as a museum, clearing the way for it to be turned back into a mosque.
In an address to the nation, Erdogan said the first Muslim prayers at the Hagia Sophia would be performed on July 24.
"God willing, we will perform Friday prayers all together on July 24 and reopen Hagia Sophia to worshipping," he said, assuring that it would open its door to all, including non-Muslims.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has never been one for introspection or restraint in his declarations, but his recent statements display an out-sized confidence, even by his standards.
In the next three years, Erdogan said, Turkey will be an unstoppable power in the region.
Despite an exodus of foreign investment, the Turkish president sees opportunity in crisis: in COVID-19, Syria, Iraq and even in Libya and North Africa, where so far he seems to have gained an edge, for now, on rivals such as France, Egypt and the UAE.
Militants Shell Towns in Syria's Idlib, Aleppo, Latakia Provinces, Russian Military says......
10 July 2020
10 July 2020
MOSCOW Militants from the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham terrorist group have attacked settlements in three Syrian provinces, Rear Admiral Alexander Shcherbitsky, the head of the Russian Defence Ministry's centre for Syrian reconciliation, said on Friday.
"We have registered one attack on the settlement of Mamouhia, one attack on the Beit Smara settlement, one attack on the Djub al-Zarur settlement, one attack on the Nahsheba settlement in the province of Latakia, one attack on the settlement of Dadih in the Idlib province, one attack on Urum-al-Kubra in the Aleppo province from the positions of Jabhat al-Nusra* terrorist organisation", Shcherbitsky said.
He noted that no attacks by Turkey-controlled armed groups had been recorded within the Idlib de-escalation zone.
On Thursday, the terrorist group shelled the settlements of Mamukhia, Sarahf, Khantutin, Ernaz, Kafer-Taala, Urem Al-Kubra in the provinces.
Earlier this year, Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, agreed on a ceasefire in Idlib, which started at midnight.
The sides also agreed to create a security corridor six kilometres (3.7 miles) north and south of the M4 highway in Syria, which connects the provinces of Latakia and Aleppo. In addition, Moscow and Ankara agreed to jointly patrol the M4 highway.
Militants remain in control of a small pocket of the Idlib province in north-west Syria.
*Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (formerly known as Jabhat al-Nusra) is a terrorist organisation banned in Russia and many other countries.
Inside the White House
By William Koenig
White House Correspondent
11 July 2020
By William Koenig
White House Correspondent
11 July 2020
It is time to fully acknowledge the San Remo/League of Nations Mandate for Palestine [see map below] and jettison the UN resolutions pertaining to Israel since they are not binding.
The reason: when the UN was formed, it had to honour previous League of Nations agreements.
A partial extended sovereignty of the Trump peace plan continues the UN resolution narrative and complicates matters with all the organisations, nations and church groups that have warned Israel of the consequences if they annexed.
So, now is the time to extend sovereignty over everything that was to be Israel by law according to the Mandate for Palestine.
Israel’s legal rights have been violated for 100 years.
Their land has been taken by the international community and given to Arab interests. Israel has not violated international law.
The international community has continued to enable this injustice by funding and pressuring Israel to give up their land designated for them in the San Remo Resolution and establishing UN resolutions.
It is time for the international community to stop the false narrative.
A Palestinian state already exists in Jordan, the former Transjordan.
The international community did nothing when Israel was attacked by Arab nations a day after they became a state on May 14, 1948.
Egypt, Jordan and Syria were preparing the attack in June 1967, boasting how they were going to destroy the Jewish state.
Then again in 1973, Israel was attacked by a coalition of Muslim states led by Egypt and Syria in the 18-day Yom Kippur War.
For the past 53 years the international community has supported the non-binding UN Security Council Resolution 242 calling on Israel to give land back to the 1967 borders, which is indefensible.
This is a vast amount of Judea and Samaria, the biblical heartland of Israel.
Furthermore, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo stated in November 2019 that after a one-year study of the issue, the settlement communities were not illegal.
As shared previously, Andrew Tucker said UNGA resolutions are not binding under international law (Page 4 of the Q and A).
He said UNSC resolutions are neither binding nor evidence of opinion juris as to a generally applicable principle of international law.
He also said UN resolutions cannot overturn or nullify terms of the Mandate for Palestine.
He said the rights and obligations under the Mandate are protected by Article 80 of the UN Charter.
Once again, the EU has threatened businesses in Judea and Samaria.
They have required labelling of products made in Judea and Samaria, which was encouraged and endorsed by the World Council of Churches.
This year the UN Human Rights Council blacklisted 112 companies that operate in Judea and Samaria.
The international community has also supported the BDS (boycott, divestment and sanctions) agenda.
It is time for the Trump administration to fully stand for Israel’s legal and biblical right to all of Judea and Samaria to correct the 100 years of error by the international community and their entities, the UN and the EU.
The blessing would be enormous (Genesis 12:3) and very possibly guarantee President Trump’s re-election on November 3, 2020.
Trump peace plan talks and Covid-19’s rapid acceleration in the US and Israel over the past three weeks has brought events to the surface and if this administration fumbles their responsibility on these urgent matters it could be to their great loss come November?
The Peace Plan and COVID19….
As the Trump peace plan discussions occurred in Washington and Jerusalem the past three weeks, Covid-19 cases rapidly increased to record levels in the U.S. and Israel.
Trump peace plan talks—week of June 20 at the White House—new daily records of Covid-19 cases; 40,000 plus cases per day in the U.S. and 700 plus per day in Israel
Trump peace plan talks—week of June 29 in Israel—new daily records of Covid-19 cases; 50,000 plus cases per day in the U.S. and 1000 plus per day in Israel
Trump peace plan talks—week of July 6—new daily records of Covid 19 cases; 60,000 plus cases per day in the U.S. and 1200 plus per day in Israel
Koenig: This Wednesday, Jarred Kushner, Avi Berkowitz and team have been in discussion on what to do with the annexation/extended sovereignty plans prior to reporting to President Trump for his review and approval.
Netanyahu is under enormous international pressure not to annex, which hopefully will slow Kushner’s plans.
Please keep praying for our White House and State Department efforts.
250 Billion Barrels: Israel Discovers Oil Deposits Similar to Saudi Arabia………
10 July 2020
10 July 2020
“Tens of billions of dollars” are waiting underground, a Professor Eugene Kendall [pictured below] recently told the Knesset.
There are about 250 billion barrels of oil in oil shale in Israel, similar to the amount of oil Saudi Arabia has, Professor Eugene Kendall told the Knesset, calling on it to leverage the resources.
“We know where they lie,” Kendall, former head of the National Economic Council in the Prime Minister’s Office, told the Knesset’s Special Committee for Overseeing the Fund for Managing State Revenues from the Tax on Profits from Gas and Oil on Tuesday, and said that a committee that was not authorised to deal with oil decided not to approve even a 20-acre experiment either.
“Tens of billions of dollars lie underground and nobody is doing anything with it,” he added.
Committee head Member of Knesset (MK) Avi Dichter said Kendall’s revelation was “dramatic and has a lot of weight.”
Oil shale is an organic-rich fine-grained sedimentary rock containing kerogen, a solid mixture of organic chemical compounds, from which liquid hydrocarbons can be produced.
Oil shale is similar to petroleum and can be refined into many different substances, including diesel fuel, gasoline, and liquid petroleum gas.
Oil shale in Israel is widespread covering approximately 15% of its territory, but is an undeveloped resource, largely because of economic and technological constraints.
According to the Geological Survey of Israel, deposits that could have the biggest economic potential are located in the northern Negev.
“Sheba, and Dedan, [Saudi Arabia] and the merchants of Tarshish, with all its villages, shall say unto you, Have you come to take plunder? have you gathered your company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil?” [Ezekiel 38]
American Protesters chant 'Death to Israel' at US Day of Rage...
July 10, 2020
July 10, 2020
Pro-Palestinian 'Day of Rage' events were held in New York, Miami, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Toronto in early July.
Calls have been made to end Israel's existence at a series of rallies held across America and Canada.
Pro-Arab Palestinian group Al-Awda held a 'Day of Rage' in Brooklyn, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Miami and Toronto between July 1 and 4, at which numerous calls were made for a new intifada or uprising against the State of Israel.
Speakers at the events linked the Arab Palestinian cause linked to others globally, including Black Lives Matter.
At the Brooklyn event, a speaker named Jamie, who is a pro-North Korean activist, told the crowd:
"The DPRK [Democratic People's Republic of Korea] also refuses to recognise Israel and calls it an imperialist satellite of the United States. […] “I believe that within our lifetime, Palestine will be yours again and Korea will be one again! The United States of America and all of its puppet governments will be no more!"
Speakers explicitly called for an end to Israel.
Nerdeen Kiswani of “Within Our Lifetime” told the crowd: "We don't want a fake Palestinian state that they give us while Israel still exists”.
“The land that Israel exists on is still stolen. The 1948 lands are still stolen. Jaffa, Haifa, and Tel Aviv - originally named Tel Rabi'a - was stolen”.
“We don't want to just go back to our homes in Gaza and the West Bank, we want all of it!"
What deluded fools these people are?
Bibi Apologises for Early Economic Opening….
11 July 2020
11 July 2020
“I was responsible for opening the economy too early and I take responsibility for fixing [this error],” PM Binyamin Netanyahu said when he presented a recovery package Thursday night, July 9, along with Finance Minister Yisrael Katz. [pictured below]
Netanyahu called the program a long-term “safety net” for the coming year for the jobless, the self-employed and the businesses who were victims of coronavirus, on the assumption that the virus would still be around next year.
Infections which have been soaring since mid-June show no sign of abating.
Unemployment benefits granted to people who lost their jobs were extended until June 2021, under the program.
Grants of up to half a million shekels (app. US$1m) would be awarded to the self-employed and business depending on their losses, while the owners themselves would receive a wage of NIS17,500 (app. $4,000) every two months.
Since the prime minister insisted, above all, for the payments to be deposited in the applicants accounts immediately and the finance ministry’s taxation authority said it could not get its act together before August, it was decided to remit NIS 7,500 into the bank accounts of business owners as soon as next week in the interim.
An extensive new vocational retraining program would be set up to adapt the work force to an economy that has to co-exist with a pandemic.
The intention is to maintain a balance between public health and economic stability.
Don Stewart's BREAKING NEWS Friday 10 July 2020
Israel Report
Editor; Mike Claydon
Editor; Mike Claydon
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